I think we really miss someone like hoggard, someone that can run in all day and stick it on the same spot ball after ball and build on the pressure, maybe not glamorous but priceless in test matches.
I disagree to a certain extent, aren't Onions, Anderson, Broad and Sidebottom all fast/mediums who try to swing the ball? what we are lacking is sheer pace and aggression, someone who can bowl fast and hit the deck, Freddie and Harmy have gone now and we don't have that option any more. They keep trying to turn Broad into this, but he simply isn't that kind of bowler. A strike bowler that not only creates pressure (think Flintoff to Ponting 2005) but can also finish off a tail, something that both Eng. and SA have trouble doing at the moment.
I disagree to a certain extent, aren't Onions, Anderson, Broad and Sidebottom all fast/mediums who try to swing the ball? what we are lacking is sheer pace and aggression, someone who can bowl fast and hit the deck, Freddie and Harmy have gone now and we don't have that option any more. They keep trying to turn Broad into this, but he simply isn't that kind of bowler. A strike bowler that not only creates pressure (think Flintoff to Ponting 2005) but can also finish off a tail, something that both Eng. and SA have trouble doing at the moment.